SYDNEY — Two more pieces of debris were all but confirmed on Thursday to be from flight MH370, adding fresh clues to the mystery of the Malaysia Airlines plane that is presumed to have crashed at sea.The fragments washed up on beaches in SA and Mauritius in March and were brought to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ATSB’s) laboratories for testing.After an expert examination they were found to have "almost certainly" come from the fated Boeing 777 aircraft, which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board.Five pieces of debris have now been identified as either definitely or probably from the jet, all discovered thousands of kilometres from the ongoing search zone, probably swept there by currents.The latest breakthrough follows a wing part recovered last year from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, which neighbours Mauritius, and confirmed by Malaysian authorities as coming from MH370.Since then two more items foun...
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